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One-Minute Practice: Cloud Shoulders

Alexander Technique with Constance Clare-Newman Posted on April 22, 2022 by ConstanceApril 22, 2022

Bring your awareness to your shoulders as you read this. Just notice how they feel right now and bookmark it for yourself. Give your shoulders three big shrugs—by lifting and squeezing them as far as you can, up by your … Continue reading →

Posted in ONE-MINUTE PRACTICES | Tagged Alexander, awareness, balance, carpal tunnel, ease, ONE-MINUTE PRACTICES, postural, practice, RSI, shoulder, tension, thoracic outlet syndrome TOS | Leave a reply

Pleasure, not Perfection

Alexander Technique with Constance Clare-Newman Posted on December 27, 2016 by ConstanceDecember 27, 2016

We are all dealing with the fight/flight /freeze pattern to some extent every day. Whether it comes from deadlines, traffic, noisy neighbors or from internal expectations of perfection, this contractive pattern is human. If we can bring our habitual reaction … Continue reading →

Posted in ONE-MINUTE PRACTICES | Tagged Alexander, attention, awareness, balance, conscious, ease, effort, fight-or-flight, freeze, grace, head, ONE-MINUTE PRACTICES, perfection, pleasure, sensation, spaciousness, spine, stress, Technique, tension | Leave a reply

Texting in Balance

Alexander Technique with Constance Clare-Newman Posted on August 31, 2015 by ConstanceAugust 31, 2015

Take a moment to pick up and look at your phone. Notice what you did with your head, face, neck, shoulders. No judgment, just awareness. Put it down, and this time, as you pick it up, think of letting your … Continue reading →

Posted in ONE-MINUTE PRACTICES | Tagged Alexander, attention, awareness, back, conscious, depth, ease, energy, head, length, movement, neck, ONE-MINUTE PRACTICES, pain, postural, posture, presence, sense, spine, Technique, tense, tension, text, texting, width | Leave a reply

Beverly Ryle, Career Coach

Alexander Technique with Constance Clare-Newman Posted on August 21, 2013 by ConstanceAugust 21, 2013

I’ve been pleasantly surprised to discover that Alexander’s idea of achieving greater freedom and ease of movement works also with more than just muscles, nerves and bones. Looking for places in my body where I habitually store stress, it didn’t … Continue reading →

Posted in Testimonials from students | Tagged career, coach, stress, tension, testimonial

One-Minute Practice: Gentle Head/Neck Balance

Alexander Technique with Constance Clare-Newman Posted on November 20, 2012 by ConstanceNovember 20, 2012

A gentle balance of your head on top of your spine can be an ongoing practice anywhere, anytime. A gentle balance suggests that it is not necessary to hold the head in position with neck muscles. The skull is meant … Continue reading →

Posted in ONE-MINUTE PRACTICES | Tagged Alexander, atlas, attention, awareness, balance, compression, conscious, ease, gravity, head, mindful, muscles, neck, ONE-MINUTE PRACTICES, pain, postural, posture, presence, skull, spine, Technique, tension, vertebrae

One-Minute Practice: Standing into Length

Alexander Technique with Constance Clare-Newman Posted on September 5, 2012 by ConstanceSeptember 5, 2012

From childhood we are admonished to “stand up straight.” We learned to pull our shoulders back, lift our chests, and then try to hold that position.  But this position is unsustainable! Because it is hugely inefficient. So we drop down, … Continue reading →

Posted in ONE-MINUTE PRACTICES | Tagged Alexander, back, balance, compression, ease, gravity, mindful, mobility, muscular, ONE-MINUTE PRACTICES, patterns, postural, posture, re-balance, sense, standing, tension, upright

One-Minute Practice: Sitting in Balance

Alexander Technique with Constance Clare-Newman Posted on January 3, 2012 by ConstanceJanuary 3, 2012

In the Alexander Technique, there is no “perfect posture” into which you should “sit up straight.” Instead, you learn how to use your sense of balance to stop holding too much tension or not enough tone. You learn to access … Continue reading →

Posted in ONE-MINUTE PRACTICES | Tagged attention, awareness, balance, compression, conscious, dynamic, ease, injury, mindful, muscular, ONE-MINUTE PRACTICES, patterns, postural, posture, sensation, sitting, spine, Technique, tension, upright

One-Minute Practice: Working Well at Your Computer

Alexander Technique with Constance Clare-Newman Posted on May 1, 2011 by ConstanceMay 1, 2011

First, bring your whole body into awareness. Sit on the chair so that you notice the weight on your seat bones, you can let your feet lie flat on the floor, and let your torso balance in neutral over the … Continue reading →

Posted in ONE-MINUTE PRACTICES | Tagged Alexander, back, body, carpal, conscious, environment, ergonomic, flexible, injuries, keyboarding, lifting, mechanics, movement, muscular, ONE-MINUTE PRACTICES, pain, patterns, posture, prevention, recuperation, reptitive, RSI, safety, strain, stuctural, Technique, tension, tunnel, warehouse, work, workstation

One-Minute Practice: Ease Jaw Tension

Alexander Technique with Constance Clare-Newman Posted on April 2, 2011 by ConstanceApril 2, 2011

Bring your awareness to your face as you read this. Can you allow the muscles to soften? As you think to yourself that you’d like to soften your eyes, you don’t need to do anything. Just the intention will be … Continue reading →

Posted in ONE-MINUTE PRACTICES | Tagged Alexander, attention, awareness, breath, breathe, conscious, exhale, inhale, jaw, ONE-MINUTE PRACTICES, patterns, posture, respiratory, sensation, somatic, Technique, tension, TMJ, voice

One-Minute Practice: Breathe with Ease

Alexander Technique with Constance Clare-Newman Posted on February 1, 2011 by ConstanceFebruary 1, 2011

Bring your breath into your awareness. Notice your breathing pattern. Do your ribs move? Or do they feel constricted? Are you breathing through your nose or mouth? What does it feel like in your chest? Your back? Your belly? Your … Continue reading →

Posted in ONE-MINUTE PRACTICES | Tagged Alexander, attention, awareness, back, balance, breath, breathe, conscious, exhale, neck, pain, posture, presence, sensation, sitting, strain, stress, tension, TMJ

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